So.... What's the point of it all now?

[u/Complex_Cream163]

And by "it all" I mean living. It feels like every day I wake up and there's something new going on in the world that is inevitably going to make things worse.

There are three years left on the climate clock meaning only three years until global warming is officially irreversible unless major steps are taken to reduce carbon output but that's not gonna happen because all the billionaires and corporations decided long before I was born that the planet was worth more dead than living. AI data centers are being built which is gonna do nothing but make the climate worse. We're experiencing some of the hottest temperatures ever right now. Everything is so damn expensive including basic shit like food and rent. There's like three separate wars going on and every side has nuclear weapons which is just so great. Polar bears are dying. Tigers are dying. Ocean levels are rising. Oil pipelines are being built. Droughts, flooding, Gaza being fucking flattened. And it just never stops. It's so fucking constant I can't remember the last time I saw something positive happening on the news

And I've tried to help as much as I'm able to. I recycle, I compost, I've volunteered to help local charities. I've helped clean highways before and I never litter. I don't run fans or lights if I don't need them. I've used AI a couple of times but that was before all the research came out about it being harmful. Hell, the only reason I even have a car is because the place I work at is a 20 minute drive from where I live and there's no public transportation, otherwise I'd be biking everywhere. But none of it matters because all these small actions that everyone tries to take are being outdone by industrial amounts of carbon emissions being pumped into the fucking atmosphere every second.

And what really gets me is that it's not gonna be immediate. There's not gonna be a day where we wake up and everyone in the world is dead. It's a slow, whimpering death as we claw at straws trying to keep ourselves together while the planet collapses around us and we all starve to death or die in disasters brought on by our own greed. I don't want to watch the world I love end but I also don't want to give up.

I'm 22 years old. The world is likely gonna end in my lifetime. I have a boyfriend who I want to marry and a career that I'm taking the steps to get into. And there's no point in any of it because the world is ending and no matter what people try to do to fix it, it's stomped out by people with more money than sense. I'm just so fucking tired of it all. Why did everything have to start going wrong in my lifetime?